Archive for December, 2011
President Warren G. Harding | The Speech for a Return To Normalcy in America
Warren G. Harding calls for a “Return to Normalcy,” Boston, MA, May 14, 1920 There isn’t anything the matter with world civilization, except that humanity is viewing it through a vision impaired in a cataclysmal war. Poise has been disturbed, and nerves have been racked, and fever has rendered men irrational; sometimes there have been [...]
Welcome To Now ~ Modern ways do not replace the wisdom of the past
Understanding yesterday – for a better today – and a brighter tomorrow. Wisdom is applying past experience to the present. It does no good to produce something new or in a new way without considering the past. It does no good to reinvent the wheel. But it is a benefit to use the wheel to [...]
Grandad’s Stories | The Cow and the Rattle Snake
Grandad’s Stories ~ Wisdom Lessons By: Tony Rollo Grandad was sneaky. He could give a lecture on life before I realized it was a lesson in life. Sometimes it would be about the immediate situation. Other times he was planting a time-bomb in my young brain, triggered to go off in some distant year, set [...]
The Committee of Five | The Creation of the Declaration of Independence
“The Committee of Five” By: Robert Marcoccio In 1689, philosopher John Locke published his “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” and by 1765 had become a motivating force leading up to the American Revolution. Locke’s political argument that natural rights gave the people the right to overthrow tyrannical leaders was combined with influence from the “country [...]
